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What do Gandhi, Jesus and Stalin have in common? Theme parks!

Mahatma Gandhi is the latest historical figure to rate a theme park created in his image. The Gandhi for Tomorrow theme park is to be built on 10 acres near an ashram he established and inhabited for six

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Mahatma Gandhi is the latest historical figure to rate a theme park created in his image. The Gandhi for Tomorrow theme park is to be built on 10 acres near an ashram he established and inhabited for six years.

As theme parks go, this one sounds more sedate than riotous. Its centerpiece will be a convention center adjoining the existing Sewagram Ashram in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It will include space for local artisans and scientists and will "depict that Gandhi was … not against technology," according to the Hindustan Times.

The park also will have a study center and hostel for those "keen to learn Gandhian thoughts," the paper says.

But Gandhi isn't the only historical figure — peace-loving or otherwise — to be a theme-park catalyst.

Last year, the mayor of a small town southwest of Paris announced plans for a Napoleonland, which will celebrate the diminutive emperor's empire-building conquests. A highlight: re-enactments of the storming of the Bastille.

The Holy Land Experience, a Christian theme park in Orlando, puts Jesus stage-front with regular re-enactments of the Crucifixion.

Hacienda Napoles, the former mansion of notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, was converted into a theme park in 2007 by the local municipality. The estate occupies eight square miles in Puerto Triunfo about 100 miles east of Medellin. Recent photos show it looking a tad down at the heels. Highlights: drug-smuggling planes, a bullring and giant plaster dinosaurs.

And 75 miles east of Vilnius, Lithuania, Grutus Park, aka Stalin World, pays homage to the bad old days of Soviet domination. Featured are Soviet-era statuary and re-creations of Gulag prison camps. One proposal that got shot down: Gulag-style trains to transport visitors around the park.